Kształcenie inżynierów w zakresie nowoczesnych dziedzin technicznych kreowane możliwościami oferowanymi przez technologię FPGA

Obserwuje się obecnie spadek zainteresowania studiami technicznymi. Przyczyny, to: zubożenie w zakresie przedmiotów ścisłych i technicznych wcześniejszych etapów kształcenia, niewielki potencjał rodzimy rozwoju innowacyjności, nie dość wyrazista oferta ze strony uczelni wyższych. Zastosowanie technologii FPGA w procesie dydaktycznym studiów pozwala znacząco złagodzić wcześniejsze niedobory edukacyjne. W artykule przedstawiono dedykowane, autorskie Laboratorium Systemów Technicznych.

Development of our civilization is driven by technological progress. Still the economical strength of countries is mainly built by the industrial production accumulation. When it gets bigger, the economical position leverages, like in case of China, India or Brazil, for example. To be not treated as reservoir of cheap production resources, except of their mass production ability, the countries made a strong progress in their autonomy in the field of science and education. In Poland we luckily lost the satellite position towards the previous domination center, but at the same time we gave up those components of our activities which where creative and would be still valuable, like some kind of social technological culture and appreciation of technological education. It is high time to reflect and create a policy of complex technological education, resulting in perspective in high skilled technicians, engineers and scientists. Fortunately, modern design methodologies, regardless if it is in the field of IT, electronics or even mechanics, are very much software based, so easy to adopt by ubiquitously computerized young generations. A perfect example of this modern approach is the field programmable technology (FPGA), allowing fluently migrate between hardware and software domains. In this paper there is presented a multidisciplinary laboratory of technological education, in which FPGA technology is the driving component, being a backbone of tooling and methodology.